But, ftooping from his height, would even deign The feeble steps of Infancy to guide. Eternal glory Him therefore betide! Let every generous youth his praise proclaim! For this the FAIRY KNIGHT with anxious thought, His guidance to vouchsafe and friendly aid; And now forth-pacing with his blooming heir, His little train before he flow did ride. נח Him eke behind a gentle Squire " ensues, Enfues, follows. B 3 With With his young lord aye marching side by side, Who well had been brought up, and nurs❜d by every Muse. Thus as their pleasing journey they pursued, With chearful argument beguiling pain; Ere long defcending from an hill they view'd Beneath their eyes out-ftretch'd a fpacious plain,' That fruitful shew'd, and apt for every grain,;" For pastures, vines and flow'rs; while Nature fair". Sweet-fmiling all around with count'nance ⚫ fain Seem'd to demand the tiller's art and carejo!!! Her wildness to correct, her lavish waste repair. T XII,obonobon llanon'd Right good, I ween, and bounteous was the foil, Aye wont in happy feafon to repay With tenfold ufury the peafant's toil. But now 'twas ruin all, and wild decay; A The sheep-fhorne down with barren brakes o'ergrown; Or every public care from every breast was flown. XIII. Aftonish'd at a scene at once fo fair And fo deform'd; with wonder and delight At man's neglect, and Nature's bounty rare, In ftudious thought awhile the Fairy Knight, Bent on that goodly lond his eager fight: Then forward rufsh'd, impatient to defery What towns and caftles therein were ' empight; For towns him feem'd, and castles he did fpy, As to sh' horizon round he stretch'd his roaming eye. XIV. Nor long way had they travell'd, ere they came A birchen grove that waving from the shore, And with its bitter juice empoison'd all the flood. XV... Right in the centre of the vale empight, Not diftant far a forked mountain rofe; Lond, land. f Empight, placed. In outward form prefenting to the fight That fam'd Parnoffian hill, on whofe fair brows Lift'ning to fweet Caftalia's founding stream, For this nor founded deep, nor fpredden wide, By toiling art through tedious years applied, In figur'd plots with leafy walls inclos'd, That plot to plot ftill anfwer'd, fhade to fhade; Each correfpondent twain alike array'd Erft, formerly. Hight, called, named. u " Dight, dreft. With like embellishments of plants and flow'rs, Of ftatues, vafes, fpouting founts, that play'd Through fhells of Tritons their afcending show'rs, And labyrinths involv'd and trelice-woven bow'rs. XVIII. There likewife mote be feen on every fide High heaping, fought with impious vain emprize, Despite of thund'ring Jove, to fcale the steepy skies. XIX. Alfe other wonders of the fportive fhears In living box by cunning artifts trac'd; And gallies trim, on no long voyage bound, But by their roots there ever anchor'd faft, * All were their bellying fails out-spread to every blast. w Emprize, enterprize, attempt. * All, ufed frequently by the old English poets for although. |